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Ask HN: Is it OK to disclose Turkish citizens db to make a point?

2 pointsby thomasrossiabout 9 years ago
Currently there is an IP where you can find a torrent with all the poorly protected data of Turkish citizens. A part from the political statements the source do (I&#x27;ll copy paste down blow the part), do you think it was necessary to expose the whole data to make a point? (The point may be right or not, I&#x27;d like to discuss the way not the point)<p>-----<p>Turkish Citizenship Database<p>Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising religious extremism in Turkey would lead to a crumbling and vulnerable technical infrastructure?<p>This leak contains the following information for 49,611,709 Turkish citizens: (IN CLEARTEXT)<p>National Identifier (TC Kimlik No) First Name Last Name Mother&#x27;s First Name Father&#x27;s First Name Gender City of Birth Date of Birth ID Registration City and District Full Address<p>Lesson to learn for Turkey: Bit shifting isn&#x27;t encryption. Index your database. We had to fix your sloppy DB work. Putting a hardcoded password on the UI hardly does anything for security. Do something about Erdogan! He is destroying your country beyond recognition.<p>Lessons for the US? We really shouldn&#x27;t elect Trump, that guy sounds like he knows even less about running a country than Erdogan does.<p>Let&#x27;s take a look at the data:<p>mernis=# SELECT * FROM citizen WHERE last = &#x27;ERDOGAN&#x27; AND \ first = &#x27;RECEP TAYYIP&#x27; AND \ date_of_birth LIKE &#x27;%&#x2F;%&#x2F;1954&#x27;;<p>... etc etc

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